Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excellent idea. The only real way to learn music and to appreciate it is to hear it, and there are many students who would like to become more familiar with it. Others get a particular enjoyment out of listening to music. These men might feel that they could afford the time and the money to go to the symphony or to various recitals perhaps once a week. Few could afford to buy a victrola and the expensive records that they want. This innovation will provide some students with a pleasure which they cannot enjoy except by going to the Music...
...telegram; he cannot make calls except by using the pay-phones near the Common Rooms. In the older buildings of Kirkland, Winthrop, and Leverett, the situation, though not ideal, is somewhat better. The pay-phone in each entry provides the convenience of limited use to students who cannot afford a private line. Randolph Hall has a still more convenient arrangement: all suites are provided with telephones, and residents are charged five cents for each outside call...
...which case I might be able to afford FORTUNE. . . . But hang on to your 8:30 Friday contract, will you, TIME...
...realize that TIME itself may dispense with this feature as an advertisement, but your radio audience can ill afford to lose such a delightful source of information...
Professor Roger's proposition is therefore most significant. It would afford a splendid source of education for many, while to others it would offer welcome relief from the nasal intonation of advertising blurbs. But if the suggestion is adopted, great care must be taken lest it, too, become barren of worth. Its operation should be placed in the hands of a non-political board; its benefits should not be confined to the small minority who possess short-wave receivers; and programs should be so arranged as not to become stereotyped and unpalatable...